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Tim Kaine: The Press Needs To Buy Tickets!
By Greg L | 4 September 2009 | Loudoun County, Virginia Politics | 2 Comments
If you’re expecting to have the media cover all of Governor Kaine’s activities, you better start sending them money so they can do that, according to the Observer.
Gov. Tim Kaine will be making a rare appearance in Herndon Sept. 16 when he is scheduled to drop in at a campaign party for Stevens Miller, the Democratic challenger against Tom Rust for the 86th district House seat.
But if you’re interested in meeting Gov. Kaine, seeing him or even hearing his speech, you’ll have to pony up cash for the Miller campaign. Tickets are $100 a pop. And if you might be expecting to read about Kaine’s visit to Herndon in the local press, don’t hold your breath. This event is not open to the public, and the Miller campaign has told The Observer that reporters will be expected to buy tickets if they want to get in.
I find this particularly disturbing, as the activities of our own governor should be an open book. If reporters, whether they represent the dead tree mainstream media or are new media bloggers, have to pony up a campaign contribution to be able to report on event coverage of political campaigns is going to be severely impacted. If you’re a candidate doing something you’d rather not have the public see, just tell the media they have to buy a ticket in order to get in, which would make them contributors to a political campaign.
Is it really that hard for Democrats to get support from the media these days? Cripes.
You’d think that when the whole purpose of campaign activities is to get the word out there about a candidate’s opinions and qualifications, they’d be rolling out the welcome mat for the press. Every time I show up at some event, especially when I’ve got a video camera or audio recorder handy, it’s as if I’m a bug light for politicians. So why does Kaine and fellow moonbat Stevens Miller now decide they want to shut the media out of their events?
My guess is that Stevens Miller is such a poor candidate that he needs the chairman of the entire friggin’ national Democratic Party to come rescue his campaign, and it’ll show. When things get this bad, maybe it’s better to just have Miller withdraw, rather than play these goofy games with the media where they try to prevent them from seeing what’s actually going on. It’s starting to look pretty pathetic.
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What kind of idiot would try to keep the press away from their events? This is insane.
I’ll spring for that $100.00. Sending it to the Rust campaign in honor of Miller and Kaine.